Abu Dhabi: Living in Dubai and claiming house rent allowances from your workplace in Abu Dhabi may not be in line with the capital’s laws, but many are doing just that, XPRESS has found. According to Abu Dhabi’s new regulations, announced in September 2012, all Abu Dhabi government employees ar

GAZA: For days bodies filled the morgues. Only since guns fell silent have volunteers come to dig graves in the sand in Rafah, Gaza’s “town of martyrs,” devastated by Israeli bombardment. For three days the strategic southern town went through hell. “The tanks came,” says Mohammed Abu Luli, 50,

BEIJING: A city in China’s restive western region of Xinjiang has banned people with head scarves, veils and long beards from boarding buses, as the government battles unrest with a policy that critics said discriminates against Muslims. Xinjiang, home to the Muslim Uighur people who speak a Turkic

Minister for Transport Ramalinga Reddy on Tuesday announced a grant of Rs. 15 crore for repairing and re-asphalting roads in Peenya Industrial Area. Taking officials to task over the condition of the roads during an inspection of the area, he said that the funds will be released under the Nagarot

Thane:  Swapnali Lad, a 24-year-old software engineer, is battling for her life in a hospital near Mumbai after she jumped from a moving rickshaw, allegedly to escape a bid to kidnap her. The police claim that on Saturday night, Ms Lad, who works with a software giant in Mumbai was headed home fr

NEW DELHI: Top former bureaucrats and prominent social scientists have come out strongly against the government's decision to exclude the marks earned in English from gradation or merit in the civil services preliminary tests. They told TOI that both aptitude tests and functional proficiency in Engl

JEDDAH: Senior officials from the Labor and Interior ministries held a meeting in Riyadh on Tuesday to intensify the campaign against labor and residency law violators across the Kingdom. An official statement issued after the meeting warned Saudi sponsors and employers against allowing their emp

RAMALLAH: A month of fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip will cost the Palestinian territory at least $4-6 billion in damages, deputy economy minister Taysir Amro said Tuesday. Amro told AFP the figure included only “direct damages” to the Gaza economy and warned it could climb fu

Search giant Google announced on Monday that its Maps service will now be available in Hindi. Starting Tuesday, map users can simply change the language settings on their Android device or on their desktop and start using them. Cities, localities, important roads and points of interest will be di

05th August 2014 | Rizwan Gangavaly | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal – In an effort to create awareness among school children on child molestation, Vidyanjali Public School in Bhatkal held a workshop on Child sexual abuse on 1- Aug-14 with support of School Management and Staff. A Girl Child Protectio

BANGALORE: Four-year-old Akshata's death after falling into a borewell in Nagthana taluk of Bijapur district on June 17 pushed the state government to come out with stringent guidelines for drilling borewells and their closure. However, more than a month later, 3,400 borewells still lie open across

The Railways will start serving precooked food from famous brands on three trains, two of them originating from Karnataka, from this week.  While MTR will cater to the needs of passengers of Delhi-bound Karnataka Express, those boarding Bangalore-Ahmedabad Express can taste food varieties from IT

"The government is of the opinion that in the Civil Services Preliminary examination, Paper II, the marks of the question section on 'English language comprehension skills' should not be included for gradation or merit," Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for Personnel said in a brief statement in th

JEDDAH: Good news for expatriates in the Kingdom. Expats can now renew visit visas for relatives using the Passport Department’s Abshir system. Maj. Gen. Sulaiman Al-Yahya, the department’s director-general, will launch the new service next Monday, said Col. Mohammed Al-Saad, director of public rel

JERUSALEM: Israel and Hamas on Monday accepted an Egyptian ceasefire proposal meant to halt a monthlong war, signaling an end to the bloodiest round of fighting between the bitter enemies could finally be approaching. The sides said a preliminary 72-hour truce was to begin at 8am (0500 GMT) on Tu

04th August 2014 | Rizwan Gangavaly | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal – In a bid to resolve power issues faced by farmers here, members of Bhatkal unit of BJP Kisan Morcha took out a rally today in Bhatkal and submitted a memorandum to Assistant Executive Engineer of HESCOM demanding resolution to the

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